Prejudice in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and To Kill a Mockingbi

Prejudice in pridefulness and Prejudice by Jane Austen and To protrude a Mockingbird by harpist Lee In the novels surcharge and Prejudice by Jane Austen and To garbage down aMockingbird by Harper Lee it is evident that both novels aredominated by impairment. In both novels there are various themes butboth novels principally centre on prejudice. In Pride and Prejudice theprejudices is non that serious. It is mainly about first impressions(the original title of the Book) yet in To Kill a Mockingbird theprejudice is more serious and is shown in a more sinister way, thetheme of prejudice reaches a climax and closing in shocking and drasticresults.Pride and Prejudice was written in 1813. The period of the settingof the novel is 1811-1812. The novel is set in England in variousplaces like London, Kent, Derbyshire and Hertfordshire (home of theBennet family).Women in regency Britain had far less preference than the women of today.Most women did not receive a formal education, wom en were taught to be effectual but not independent, their aim was to become accomplishedwhich meant being well(p) In the social graces such as singing,music, drawing, needlework and literature, although the latter did nothave the same emphasis. There was constant pressure on women of those time to marry well, to obtain financial security, not just for theirselves but overly for their immediate family. The position of unmarriedwomen is clearly defined in Pride and Prejudice there is no instancewhere a single muliebrity travelled alone, or was without a chaperone apartfrom when Elizabeth went to nurse Jane. charge then this incident waslooked down upon by Miss Bingley, however it win Elizabeth respect inthe eyes of Mr Darcy. When Lydia r... ... forcedher to, but also because she have regular beatings from dock whichpsychologically left an impact on her and make her feel someone had topay and that person was Tom Robinson. So Bob Ewells prejudice was tosuch an extent that he cau sed an innocent man to die, thereof alongwith most of Maycomb County he has Tom Robinsons blood on hishand. Both books contain a considerable amount of prejudice, however theprejudice in Pride and Prejudice is quite irrelevant while in ToKill a Mockingbird it is quite substantial.Jane Austen has shown prejudice in a satirical manner while in toHarper Lee has shown its injustice form. Pride and Prejudice is abouttrivial themes like marriage, love and family animation while in To Kill amockingbird it is about evil, racial prejudice and discriminationwhich eventually grasps the life of a innocent man.